Equalize School Funding for Sports and Fine Arts

 

The purpose of this bill is to give fine arts as much of an opportunity to succeed and let all students have the same

quality of experience.

 

In all Minnesota schools students need at least 1 Fine Arts credit to graduate, this is made hard if they have low

funding and not enough resources to have a good set curriculum. while the physical ed, and sports get much more funding

and shiny new equipment, Music and art classes are always first on the chopping block. This is not saying that arts are

more important than sports, just saying that arts deserve as much of a chance. Arts aren't just limited to Painting,

there are many different kinds including band, choir, acting, photography, digital art, creative writing, etc. while

government funding is not the only way these programs get funding it is the biggest one, others include but are not

limited to fundraisers, booster clubs, and grants.

 

Fine Arts: Creative visual art that can be appreciative for their imaginative content, can also include performing arts.

Sports: an activity using physical exertion that competes individually or on teams.

School Funding: money provided from the government to finance school salaries, programs, and resources.

Fundraisers: events held to generate financial support.

Booster clubs: volunteer organization composed of, parents or community members that fund school groups or programs.

Grants: a sum of money given to a group from an organization for a particular purpose.

 

 

The extra funds for Fine Arts programs will come from the schools sports funds (comes from the states general fund) so

that they will in the end have equal funds.

If the sports programs need excess funds for any reason they can fundraise.

 

If schools do not comply their sports funding will get cut and they will have to rely on fundraising.

 

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